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Friday, 6 January 2012

Candy Skein Yarns

I've been enjoying knitting lately. I've dived into stash with delight and glee and loved everything on the needles. One of the things making me very happy was this:

This lovely bit of business is Candy Skein's Yummy Worsted, a delightful 220 yards of Superwash Merino. The colourway is Blackberry and according to Tami, the lady behind the Candy enterprise, it's one of her most popular colourways. I can see why. Some of you might recognise Tami from her blogalongs- WIP Wednesdays and FO Fridays. I got chatting to Tami and was lucky enough to receive some review yarn.

The yarn is soft to the touch and has a really nice bounce that I wasn't expecting from superwash. It was more variegated than I'd imagined from the picture so I pondered the pattern choice for some time. Eventually I settled on Molly, a slouchy hat design by Erin Ruth. A third of the way into knitting I had a crisis- is this TOO variegated for cables? However, I was knitting with some friends over new year's and was met with oooo's and ahhh's and decided to keep going.

Half way through the decreases, I realised I was going to run out of yarn. I was horrified and ripped back to start them 3 rows earlier. The yarn held up well. There was a little fuzzing but no more than I've come to expect from other yarns and with a little knitting, everything looked good to go again.

I like the end result, especially the textured stitches in the body of the hat. I think if I was to do this again, I'd leave out the cable and have just the texture to really showcase the colourway. OR add 2 extra purls either side of the cable to really make it stand out.

Great review. I tend to rip back a fair bit so it's nice to know the yarn will hold up for that. Your pattern choice looks perfect for the yarn and even wit h a few rounds less, it's very nicely slouchy!

forgive me if the comment shows up 2x ... can't tell if my computer swallowed the comment I just wrote or ...anyway! Great hat, and thanks for the review and the pattern suggestion. I don't have a ton of worsted and then when I reach in the stash I often wonder what I might do w/1-2 skeins. the color is also great! I'm finishing up listening to your latest podcast -- it seems we are all thinking about our stashes right now w/the New Year ... yep. Just must knit MORE ROFL ... Happy New Year!